Can we trust us | Stelios Ramfos | TEDxAcademy

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Stelios Ramfos, writer and thinker, talking about the trust in our society.

In a time when everyone is searching for culprits, the philosopher and writer Stelios Ramfos is suggesting self-awareness
Stelios Ramfos is considered an emblematic figure of the Greek intellectual elite.

He studied Law in Athens and Philosophy in Paris. A doughty spirit, he went through contrasting philosophical fields.

He got started with academic research as a Marxist, yet the approach of the universality of Hellenism became a landmark to
his process. His public discourse was connected to the ideas of neo-orthodoxy.

Still, later on, while studying the history of Greece as a field of conflict between eastern and western ideas, he reconsidered and thus attributed to orthodoxy traits that impede progress.He has written more than thirty books, while his articles are getting published in Greece and abroad.
And he keeps producing…

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